Boss CE-3 Made in Japan is the BEST. The Mode II stereo option is the only stereo chorus pedal on the market that has this mode. You use the mode II option when using two amps in stereo setup plugging the guitar straight into the pedal and outputting to the two amps. The mode one option will give you what all the other chorus pedals give you, but this CE-3 Mode II is what every guitar player is looking for. The reason being, you don't get the harsh squeal when doing pinch harmonics while running the amps gain or overdrive channels.
I have one that I received for my 65th birthday. I add it to the half a dozen other chorus pedals I own, and the many I've built. Like many that use a single FET for blocking and unblocking the delay signal to provide "bypass" and effect modes, a vibrato effect that you get by simply cancelling the dry signal and using only the wet signal, is not normally possible. You can always mod a chorus by lifting the resistor that feeds dry signal to the output, but when you switch to bypass mode, you get dead quiet; no wet and no dry either. HOWEVER, vibrato *is* possible on the CE-3. Simply use Mode II - the "stereo" mode. You'll need to insert a plug into the main output in order to actuate the secondary output jack as wet-only. That first plug doesn't need to actually connect to anything. It achieves the wet/dry split by how it nudges the contacts in the jack. When you hit the foot treadle, the CE-3 will now feed dry to both outputs. I may have remembered it wrong and flipped around what the A and B jacks do, but one of them *will* give you a nice wiggly vibrato.
@@IkeGuitar What I consider to be comparatively recently...for me...which is about 20 years or so. Basically, since toner-transfer became available for etching circuit boards. I enjoy modding them as well. I like to include a few additional features like a bass cut on the wet signal to make the pitch-wobble a little less evident. I actually modded my CE-3 to have 2 additional delay ranges besides the stock range; one a little more near the border of flanging and chorus, that gets a reasonable slow Leslie approximation, and another with a longer-than-stock delay for a slightly "thicker" sound. Such mods are easily done to pretty much any analog chorus, as long as one has room to install the extra switches. Many pedals from before 1985 or so tend to have fewer controls than they might have. These days, we've moved from an average of around 2-2.5 controls per pedal to something more on the order of 4-4.5
I have a few choruses like 6, 2 being the ce2 and 3 you demo. Other choruses "enter name here" often are to thick and few if any that come with other effects sound any good. The Ce-3 is one I sometimes do not even know if it is on. The light is so dim I need to crank up the depth to detect the "warble". I use a large pedalboard with each chain isolated and with a clean boost in front, the ce-3 has a place on my board for a "light flavoring" chorus effect rather than a thick coating.
Boss CE-3 Made in Japan is the BEST. The Mode II stereo option is the only stereo chorus pedal on the market that has this mode. You use the mode II option when using two amps in stereo setup plugging the guitar straight into the pedal and outputting to the two amps. The mode one option will give you what all the other chorus pedals give you, but this CE-3 Mode II is what every guitar player is looking for. The reason being, you don't get the harsh squeal when doing pinch harmonics while running the amps gain or overdrive channels.
I have one that I received for my 65th birthday. I add it to the half a dozen other chorus pedals I own, and the many I've built. Like many that use a single FET for blocking and unblocking the delay signal to provide "bypass" and effect modes, a vibrato effect that you get by simply cancelling the dry signal and using only the wet signal, is not normally possible. You can always mod a chorus by lifting the resistor that feeds dry signal to the output, but when you switch to bypass mode, you get dead quiet; no wet and no dry either. HOWEVER, vibrato *is* possible on the CE-3. Simply use Mode II - the "stereo" mode. You'll need to insert a plug into the main output in order to actuate the secondary output jack as wet-only. That first plug doesn't need to actually connect to anything. It achieves the wet/dry split by how it nudges the contacts in the jack. When you hit the foot treadle, the CE-3 will now feed dry to both outputs. I may have remembered it wrong and flipped around what the A and B jacks do, but one of them *will* give you a nice wiggly vibrato.
You’re knowledge of these pedals is amazing. How long have you been building choruses?
@@IkeGuitar What I consider to be comparatively recently...for me...which is about 20 years or so. Basically, since toner-transfer became available for etching circuit boards. I enjoy modding them as well. I like to include a few additional features like a bass cut on the wet signal to make the pitch-wobble a little less evident. I actually modded my CE-3 to have 2 additional delay ranges besides the stock range; one a little more near the border of flanging and chorus, that gets a reasonable slow Leslie approximation, and another with a longer-than-stock delay for a slightly "thicker" sound. Such mods are easily done to pretty much any analog chorus, as long as one has room to install the extra switches. Many pedals from before 1985 or so tend to have fewer controls than they might have. These days, we've moved from an average of around 2-2.5 controls per pedal to something more on the order of 4-4.5
I have a few choruses like 6, 2 being the ce2 and 3 you demo. Other choruses "enter name here" often are to thick and few if any that come with other effects sound any good. The Ce-3 is one I sometimes do not even know if it is on. The light is so dim I need to crank up the depth to detect the "warble". I use a large pedalboard with each chain isolated and with a clean boost in front, the ce-3 has a place on my board for a "light flavoring" chorus effect rather than a thick coating.
Super my friend
Thank you, Jake!
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